Thomas Widodo

PT. Dini Nusa Kusuma

I was born in Magellan, a town in central Java. I have an elder sister and a younger sister. My parents
were selling spare parts for electric appliances. After spending 19 years in Magellan, I went to a university in
Boston. While studying at the university, I also worked with a company under what they called a cooperative
program.
After graduating from the university, I entered a company that develops a videoconferencing system. I
was better off and there was no problem. But I wanted to do something challenging. I decided to return to
Indonesia with what I learned in America. Then I met two people with the same visions and dreams as me.
They are now my business partners.
We decided to develop a more reliable Internet connection device. Initially, we had difficulty raising the
necessary money. But two major communication companies approached us and asked us to develop products
they needed. We talked with them and agreed to work with them. They taught us about communication-
related laws and rules and how to obtain licenses in Indonesia. But in 2004, we found their policies differed
from ours. As a result, we acquired their businesses.
We started as an Internet access provider and then became a satellite component provider. We hope to
spread our business throughout Indonesia. There remain untapped markets, among them areas related to
commerce, banking, mining and the military. It may take five to 10 years for us to be ready to break into
these areas. After that, we would like to expand into foreign countries.

Ubiquitous Communications
Abstract

As computer and signal processing speed increase, information transmission efficiencies reach within
a fraction of a dB of Shannon’s Limit, SDRs (software defined radios) take radio communications to the
“next level”, the “internet of things” (IoT) already connecting over 10 billion devices wirelessly, and the ITU
declaring in 2013 that Asia has become the largest M2M market in the world, the adjective “ubiquitous” is
no longer the exaggeration it has represented for years but rather a very accurate description of tomorrow’s
communications.
Within a few years Indonesia, driven by its population and need for multiple forms of telecommunications
as a result of our environment, will experience the ability to create, access, transfer and share information
from any location, using many different kinds of devices from wrist bands to computers embedded in our
eyeglasses, and do so in true multi-tasking modes.
Soon we will not know the path information flows, nor will we care. Self-healing networks, least cost
routing, QoS driven route management, congestion sensors, security requirements, and neural networking
will determine routing. We will forget about how difficult it is to make a mobile call of reasonable quality
today and focus more on the quality of the communication experience tomorrow.

vii COMNETSAT 2013